Immediately after sunset on the evening of December 21, Jupiter and Saturn will be in the night sky closer to each other than ever since the Middle Ages, and amateur astronomers around the world will have a unique opportunity to…
The Falcon 9 launch vehicle of SpaceX launched from the Vandenberg Cosmodrome in California and successfully launched the world ocean sensing satellite Sentinel-6, Ilona Mask’s website said on Saturday, November 21. Flight is normal: why Europe’s space successes became possibleMost…
One of the world’s most famous and largest radio telescopes at the Puerto Rican Arecibo telescope will be dismantled due to the threat of collapse. According to engineers, the design has become so unstable that repair is not possible. In…
In 2018, a new atmospheric phenomenon was discovered, reminiscent of the polar lights. In the period from 2015 to 2016. Amateur astronomers reported 30 cases of observations in the sky of a purple strip, just below which, as a rule,…
Theories of the formation of the Milky Way can be revised as a result of a discovery based on the study of the behavior of the oldest stars of our Galaxy. A study of the orbits of the most metal-poor…
The Vega booster failed a few minutes after the launch of 17 November from French Guiana, resulting in the loss of two satellites as a result of the second missile failure in its last three launches. The Vega rocket launched…
A group of astronomers led by Anna Schauer from the University of Texas at Austin, USA, found that the lunar telescope, the idea of which was considered by NASA about 10 years ago, can solve a problem that none of…
Minerals from Mars zircon containing uranium is one of the main components of the continental crust of the Earth, providing information on the age and origin of continents, as well as on large geological features, such as mountain chains and…
“Landing on Mars is extremely difficult, and there is no right to make a mistake,” says Francois Spoto, head of the ExoMars program team. “The last test was a good step forward, but this is not the ideal result that…
Using the Very Large Telescope of the European Southern Observatory, astronomers studied ionized gas in the central regions of the Seyfert galaxy NGC 7130. In their work, the researchers identified a complex, multicomponent release from this galaxy. Active galaxy nuclei…
One of the key questions of cosmology is the determination of the exact speed of expansion of the universe. Two modern methods for determining this rate give different, contradictory values. In a new study, physicist David Harvey of Leiden University,…
The Y chromosome may be in trouble. The sex we’re assigned at birth depends largely on a genetic flip of the coin: X or Y? Two X chromosomes and you (almost always) develop ovaries. An X and a Y chromosome?…